Matt Shaheen

Matthew F. Shaheen, known as Matt Shaheen (born 1965), is an incoming 2015 Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 66 in Plano in Collin County north of Dallas, Texas.

Biography

A native of Virginia, Shaheen received a bachelor's degree from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland near the capital city of Richmond, at which he received All Conference honors through the Old Dominion Athletic Conference as a player on the college Yellow Jackets football team. Shaheen also holds a master's degree from Southern Methodist University in University Park, Texas.

Since 2004, he has been a technology and management consulting executive, with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services.

Shaheen is a deacon at the large Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano and directs a Bible study for inmates in the Collin County jail.

Political life

Shaheen is the former Precinct 1 commissioner for Collin County, one of four legislative positions in county government which encompasses North Plano, Frisco, Prosper, Celina, and northwestern McKinney. As a county commissioner, he served on the Texas Conference of Urban Counties Policy Committee and the Texas Juvenile Justice Department Advisory Committee. Then Governor Rick Perry named him to the Texas State Board of Social Workers, for which he was chairman of the board's Professional Development Committee and a member of the Ethics Committee. He has also served on the Plano Community Relations Commission.

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Matt (name)

Matt is a given name. It is a diminutive of Matthew, and often serves as a nickname for persons named Matthew. Less commonly, it is used as a surname.

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Matt, Switzerland

Matt is a village, and former municipality, in the municipality of Glarus Süd and canton of Glarus in Switzerland. Matt lies in the valley of the Sernf river, and consists of the village of Matt itself, and the mountain hamlet of Weissenberge.

History

Matt is first mentioned in 1273 as Mattun.

In 1879, the valley of the Linth river was connected to the Swiss railway network by the opening of the Swiss Northeastern Railway line from Weesen, but Matt, in the side-valley of the Sernf river, remained unserved. This impacted the local economy, and various proposals were brought forward to provide rail service to the Sernf valley. Eventually, on 8 July 1905, the Sernftal tramway, a metre gauge roadside electric tramway, was opened connecting Schwanden with Matt and other communities as far as Elm. Service on this line continued until 31 May 1969, when it was replaced by road services. In 1967, a cable car was opened to link Matt and Weissenberge.

On 1 January 2011, Matt became part of the new municipality of Glarus Süd.